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Death toll rises to 95, another 246 injured in Ankara peace rally - UPDATED - 4 - PHOTOSESSION

Death toll rises to 95, another 246 injured in Ankara peace rally - <span style="color: red;">UPDATED - 4 - <span style="color: red;">PHOTOSESSION

10 October 2015 23:41 (UTC +04:00)

Number of the injured has reached 246, said in statement.

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19:00/10.11.2015

Baku – APA. Turkey’s Health Minister says the two bomb explosions in the Turkish capital have killed a total of 86 people.

Minister Mehmet Muezinoglu said that another 186 people were injured in the attacks in Ankara on a peace rally.

Minister Mehmet Muezinoglu said 28 people among the 186 wounded are in intensive care.

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17:00

Baku – APA. The death toll as a result of the terrorist attack in Ankara, Turkey on Oct.10 has reached 47 people, said the city Attorney General Harun Kodalak, the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet reported.

The attorney general said 30 people died at the scene. 17 of the injured died in hospitals.

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14:54

Baku – APA. 30 people have been killed, 126 injured by two explosions near Ankara's main train station early Saturday.

APA reports quoting Daily Sabah that the explosions occurred where the Confederation of Public Sector Trades' Unions (KESK) and other labor unions were planning to hold a "Labor, peace, democracy" rally at SÄ±hhiye Square to call for an end to the renewed conflict between the terrorist organization PKK and the Turkish state.

Turkish government officials said the blast outside the main train station in the capital Ankara on Saturday was a "terrorist attack" and they were investigating claims that a suicide bomber was responsible.

Emergency services raced to the scene following the blast at 10.05 a.m. local time. Bodies lay in front of the station on Hipodrum Street, where people had started to arrive for a peace rally in Ankara.

Meanwhile, PM Ahmet DavutoÄŸlu was briefed by the interior, health ministers about the bomb blast, and called for a meeting at 12 p.m. with Ankara governor, intelligence and police officials to discuss the attack.

President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan cancelled his program in Istanbul following the blasts, while CHP's KÄ±lÄ±çdaroÄŸlu and HDP's DemirtaÅŸ cancelled all Saturday programs.